1920 in the United Kingdom

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1920 in the United Kingdom:

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Events

January 10 - The steamer Treveal is wrecked in the English Channel. 35 people lose their lives.
February 11 - The Council of the League of Nations meets for the first time in London.
February 17 - The Metropolitan Police are told that their horses will be replaced by cars.
February 23 - War Secretary Winston Churchill announces that conscripts will be replaced by a volunteer army of 220,000 men.
March 10 - The Ulster Unionist Council accepts the Government's plan for a Northern Ireland Parliament.
March 17 - Queen Alexandra unveils a monument to Nurse Edith Cavell in London.
March 27 - Troytown wins the Grand National.
March 31 - Parliament passes the Government of Ireland Act, but Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson opposes the division of Ireland, seing it as a betrayal of southern and western unionists.
April 24 - Aston Villa beat Huddersfield Town 1-0 in the first FA Cup Final since 1915.
May 10 - Forty Irish republican prisoners on hunger strike at Wormwood Scrubs are released.
May 17 - Sinn Féin supporters and Unionists engage in pitched street battles in Londonderry.
May 18 - Women lecturers are given equal status to their male colleagues at Oxford University.
May 21 - The Government proposes a car tax of £1 per horsepower (13 p/kW).
May 30 - At least twenty people drown in serious floods in Lincolnshire.
June 2 - Spion Kop wins the Derby.
June 9 - King George V opens the Imperial War Museum at the Crystal Palace.
June 20 - Five die in severe rioting in Ulster.
June 24 - Troops are sent to reinforce the Londonderry garrison.
July 3 - Bill Tilden is the first American to win Wimbledon. French player Suzanne Lenglen takes the ladies' title for the second time.
July 5 - A new airmail service starts from London to Amsterdam.
July 13 - London County Council bans foreigners from almost all council jobs.
July 16 - The Great War is officially declared over with Austria.
July 23 - Fourteen die and one hundred are injured in fierce rioting in Belfast.
July 24 - Mr F Courtney wins an air race at an average speed of 153.5 mph.
July 31 - The Communist Party of Great Britain is founded in London.
August 1 - The first Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain opens.
August 2 - The Government introduces a new bill to "restore order" in Ireland which allows for suspension of jury trials.
August 3 - There are Catholic riots in Belfast in protest at the continuing British military presence.
August 9 - The Labour Party says it will call for a general strike if the United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
August 18 - The first night bus services are introduced in London.
August 29 - Eleven die and forty are injured in street battles in Belfast.
September 22 - The Metropolitan Police forms the Flying Squad.
October 7 - The first one hundred women are admitted to study for full degrees at Oxford University.
October 10 - It is announced that compulsory hand signals are to be introduced for all drivers.
October 16 - Miners go on strike.
October 20 - Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst is charged with sedition after calling upon workers to loot the London Docks.
October 25 - The Emergency Powers Bill to counter the miners' strike has its second reading in the House of Commons.
October 25 - Terence MacSwiney, jailed Lord Mayor of Cork, dies in Brixton Prison after a 78-day hunger strike.
October 28 - Sylvia Pankhurst is jailed for six months.
November 3 - The miners' strike ends after only a small majority vote to continue.
November 10 - The body of the Unknown Soldier arrives from France for burial in Westminster Abbey.
December 5 - The Scots vote against prohibition.
December 23 - Jewish leaders in London launch a £25 million appeal for Palestine.
December 23 - The Irish Partition Act receives Royal Assent.

Births

25 March - Patrick Troughton, actor (d. 1987)
21 August - Christopher Robin Milne, author and bookseller (d. 1996)

Deaths

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